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IMF Data Shows Virus Will Push China GDP Growth Well Beyond U.S.

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(Bloomberg) -- The Covid-19 pandemic will produce lasting shifts to global growth, pushing China even more to the forefront.
The proportion of worldwide growth coming from China is expected to increase from 26.8% in 2021 to 27.7% in 2025, according to Bloomberg calculations using International Monetary Fund data.
That’s more than 15 and 17 percentage points, respectively, higher than the U.S share of expected global output. India, Germany and Indonesia round out the top five largest growth engines, next year.

The fund now forecasts world gross domestic product to shrink 4.4% this year, an improvement from the 4.9% drop seen in June, according to the latest World Economic Outlook released this week. Next year, the IMF sees growth of 5.2%.
The IMF estimates China will grow by 8.2% next year, down a full percentage point from the IMF’s April estimate but strong enough to account for more than one-quarter of global growth. The U.S. is expected to rally to a 3.1% increase which will account for 11.6% of global growth in 2021 in purchasing power parity terms.
By 2025, the cumulative loss in output relative to the pre-pandemic projected path is projected to grow to $28 trillion.
“While the global economy is coming back, the ascent will likely be long, uneven, and uncertain,” Gita Gopinath, IMF’s director of research, wrote in the report.
The five nations with the highest Covid-19 death counts -- U.S., Brazil, India, Mexico and U.K. -- are forecast to suffer a total GDP decline of nearly $1.8 trillion in nominal terms and $2.1 trillion after having been adjusted for differences in purchasing power.
Living Standards
Extreme poverty is set to rise for the first time in more than two decades, and persistent output losses imply a major setback to living standards versus the pre-pandemic days, the IMF said.
“The poor are getting poorer with close to 90 million people expected to fall into extreme deprivation this year,” said Gopinath.
In January, before the coronavirus began spreading widely, the IMF estimated 3.3% global growth this year and 3.4% in 2021.
Russia, the ninth largest contributor of total growth in 2021, is poised to move up to fifth in five years as Germany’s economic growth slows.
After the rebound in 2021, global growth is expected to gradually slow to about 3.5% in the medium term, according to the report.
Except for China, where output is expected to exceed 2019 levels this year, output in both advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies is projected to remain below 2019 levels even next year.
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There is a problem with the title of this article. It makes readers think that virus is a good thing. In fact, the virus did not promote China's GDP growth. In 2019, China's GDP growth rate exceeded 6%. The virus just made the GDP of countries that thought it was just a small flu drop more.
 
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PBOC need to allow the yuan to rise in value. Holding down the yuan for export makes no sense when boosting domestic consumption should be the number 1 priority.
 
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